St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-29
The Week an Unusually Cold
One in the Lake
Region.
A Great Excess Of Rainfall
Noted in Minnesota
and Iowa.
The Rain, However, is EX-
pected to Benefit the
Corn Crop.
Excellent Prospects for Fall
Feed---Tobaeeo and
Cotton Crops.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S.-The follow
ing is the weather crop bulletin of the
signal Office for the week ending Aug.
2S: During the week ending Aug. 2S,
the weather has been unusually cold in
the central valleys and the lake region
and slightly colder in all states on the
Atlantic coast, except Florida and
southern Georgia. In the corn region
the daily average temperature ranged
from six to twelve degrees below the
normal, and in the cotton and tobacco
regions the daily temperature was from
three to five degrees colder than usual.
The daily average temperature for the
season, from Jan. to Aug. 81, differs
less than one degree from the normal in
all districts except from the lower Mis-
souri, valley westward to the Rocky
mountains, where the daily average
temperature was about two degrees
warmer than usual, and i'll the vicinity
of Lake Superior, where the daily tenn
perature has been from two to four de-
grees colder than usual.
RAINFALL.
During the week the rainfall has been
in excess in states on the Atlantic coast,
on the eastern slope of the Rocky noun
tainS as far east as the Missouri and
Arkansas. and from Lake Erie westward
to Iowa. Throughout the tobacco regions
of Kentucky and Tennessee and in the
cotton region the rainfall has been less
than usual, but numerous showers have
occurred in those districts. The large
seasonal deficiency, exceeding ten
inches, continues in the lower MisSiS-
Sippi valley and the greater portions OF
Iowa and Illinois, although this def
cheney has been slightly reduced by the
recent rains in Iowa and Northern
Illinois. During the past month
over 100 per cent. OF the
usual amount of rain occur
red in the district on the Atlantic coast,
and in Nebraska, Colorado, Southern
Minnesota, Northern Iowa, Northern
Kansas, Northern Illinois, Southern
Michigan and Northern Indiana, while
less than so per cent. of the usual
amount of rain has occurred in Southern
Illinois, Southern Missouri, Arkansas
and in the extreme western portions of
Kentucky and Tennessee. In the greater
portion of the tobacco regions of Ken
lucky and Tennessee the rainfall has
exceeded IS per cent. of the usual
amount during the month.
GENERAL REMARKS.
Reports indicate that the rain during
the past and previous weeks has doubt
less proved favorable for growing
crops in the corn regions, although
in the principal cOrn-produc-
ing states the yield of this
crop will doubtless be materially re-
duced, owing to the drought. Reports
from the cotton regions show that the
harvesting of that crop is in progress,
but that the yield has been slightly re-
duced, owing to the deficiency of rain
fall. During the week the weather has
been especially favorable for pasture
and late-planted potatoes in the middle
Atlantic states and in the Northwest.
Reports from New England indicate
that the weather has been unfavorable
to growing crops, especially to tobacco
and potatoes, owing to an excess OF
rainfall. Frosts occurred during the
week as far south as Central Min
nesota, but as yet have caused no
material injury to crops.